cranberry sauce
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- noun
- /ˈkrænˌbɛri sɔs/
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salsa de arándanos
- At Thanksgiving dinner, we always serve cranberry sauce alongside the roast turkey.
- potatoes and cranberry sauce
- turkey and cranberry sauce
- gravy and cranberry sauce
Examples
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Could you please put the cranberry sauce in that dish?
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Generally speaking, most Americans go the turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie route.
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It's not Christmas without cranberry sauce!
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You got some cranberry sauce too?
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Um, did you remember to pick up the cranberry sauce?
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Somebody pass me the cranberry sauce.
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You have real cranberry sauce.
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Would you like some more cranberry sauce, dear?
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Does anybody want cranberry sauce?
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- The cranberry sauce is dry.
How Thick
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sweet sauce made from cranberries' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cranberry' (a small tart berry) with 'sauce' (a condiment), so a learner who knows the two words will readily infer the compound meaning. This noun–noun composition is a common, literal culinary construction found across languages, making it easily comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Cranberry sauce comes from early American cooking. One popular story says Native Americans showed early settlers how to cook very sour cranberry with sugar into a thick sauce that kept well and was eaten with roast meat like turkey, so the name came to mean 'a sweet sauce' we serve with roast meats today.